Really? They’ve got to be kidding. Indiana is forcing a senior center to stop offering prizes for card games in which residents pay a few dollars to play, saying the packages of cookies or toilet paper offered to winners makes the euchre games gambling.

Before the ins and outs of the 2016 presidential contest become a preoccupation for many of us, it seems a good time to step back and look at the office of the presidency for which so many candidates are vying.

College preparedness is a national problem. More than 1.7 million college freshmen across the U.S. take remedial courses each year. The annual cost of remediation to states, schools and students is close to $7 billion, according to a report compiled in 2012 by the National Bureau of Economic Research.

To the editor: As the rector of Christ Episcopal Church, I would like to invite anyone affected by the recent flooding in Jefferson County to a Healing Service at our church, located at 506 Mulberry St., which will be held at noon Thursday.

To the editor: On June 17 the Madison Courier featured headlines and lead story concerning a complaint against Madison Consolidated Schools and Southwestern School involving meals catered by members of the Madison Assembly of God for staff members from these schools during teacher in-service days.